Balik Bayan at Blacktown Arts is a multi-art form and community celebration project that will transform the centre into a gathering space of intersecting contemporary art forms: video, installation, painting, performance, film, community activations and events, featuring local and international artists with Filipino ancestry.

In Blacktown, 34,000 people have Philippine ancestry, roughly 9% of our community. Literally translated from the Tagalog language, balik means return and bayan means country. BalikBayan asks a central question: What does a ‘return to country’ mean for one of the world’s largest diaspora?

The Bayanihan Philippine Art Project concludes at Blacktown Arts Centre on 2 November 2017, timed during All Souls Day, a significant date in the Filipino cultural calendar.